Like several contemporary artists, João Pombeiro uses classic movies (in this case Hitchcock) in his video works, His discreet and minimal interventions matches an era where the cultural consumer intends to reinterpret, to intervene and to shuffle all the given cards. We can almost talk about a consumer's revenge. In 'International Intrigue', the multiple levels of interpretation have a direct correspondence with the several languages available in a movie's dvd. In the air remains the question of the standardization of the culture and it's tastes, but also of the invisible borders that each an every language embodies in it's hermeticy, in it's inalienable particularity and in the mystery of it's musicality.

João Pombeiro works with several media (painting, installation, graphic design and video). In all of these media, he has a nimble posture and his irony has a refreshing simplicity.